David Bowie

Note: This piece contains spoilers for Twin Peaks: The Return “What year is this?” - Dale Cooper And with those words (along with one last classic Laura Palmer scream) Twin Peaks: The Return comes to an end. At this point whether this is…

We could spend all day talking about how Fire Walk With Me relates to the current return of Twin Peaks but it’s more interesting to consider it as something of a watershed moment in Lynch’s filmography: from this film on his output got…

The RTE Choice Music Prize, that is. This week, your NO ENCORE wrecking crew boasts a roundtable of academic music-related excellence as it welcomes back Kieran McGuinness of Delorentos fame alongside your regular trio of Dave, Craig and…

Monday the 11th of January 2016. David Bowie is dead. The world is in mourning.  Except for one person. 60 year-old Irish woman, Maisie Moynihan. “It’s because of that man I’m an old maid. It’s because of that man I’ve been left on…

This year, a lot of shit happened. None of it was good. About one good thing happened on Twitter all year and that was Pokemon GO, and that wasn't even that good because the app kept crashing and nobody even plays it anymore. Pokemon GO did…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where HeadStuff staff and friends siphon through exciting art to craft essential listening experiences you didn’t know you needed. It's the most wonderful time of the year....End of the Year Lists time. Here we have…

We Cut Corners The Cadences of Others A music year like 2016 doesn’t come along all that often. Globally, we have seen some of the best releases of the decade seize the public consciousness, experiment and divide critical opinion.…

It’s Holy Fuck by name and by nature this week on a feature-length episode as NO ENCORE chats to Brian Borcherdt of the profanely-monikered Toronto electronica outfit mere moments before a very raucous indeed Dublin headliner. With Colm…

Welcome to THE PLAYLIST, where HeadStuff staff and friends siphon through exciting art to craft essential listening experiences you didn’t know you needed. In this instalment, Mark Conroy takes us to infinity and beyond...  Truth to be…

"Like today I was feeding the receipt machine out and trying to scribble down some lyrics that popped into my head..." There’s this cliché about musicians, working in coffee shops, scrawling down lyrics and ideas any chance they get at…